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Cursed Objects
Imagine ‘show and tell’, but about how humanity has gone wrong. A podcast about big ideas, weird history - and tat. Join Dr Kasia Tee and Dan Hancox as they get drunk in the gift shop with the Angel of History. Find us also on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
Cursed ObjectsCursed Objects Live Podcast! Cable Street, Memory and Tat
On the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, we were delighted to be invited by Whitechapel Gallery to discuss – in front of a packed auditorium…
Cursed Objects3rd Oct FREE live show & new ep: The Coming of Age review
We have a FREE upcoming live show at Whitechapel Gallery (Zilkha Auditorium) on Saturday, 3rd October, 13:00 - 14:10. We are going to be joined by two very…
Cursed ObjectsThe GLC Nuclear Bunker Party! Ft. Nick Bano and Biz K
It's a spontaneous Cursed Side Quest, outside and on main! We're in the pub with dear friends and returning guests Biz K and Nick Bano, diving into the recent…
Cursed ObjectsCLEGGMANIA!
Remember in 2010 when 10 million Brits watched the first ever televised leader debate, and we collectively lost our minds? We ponder the moment of madness that…
Cursed ObjectsGirl Dinner ft. Eli Davies
What’s for dinner? A handful of grated cheese? Some olives and a croissant? A whole crab, eaten in bed? This one goes out to all the exhausted girlies who…
Cursed ObjectsAre We Still Living in an Old Country? - ft. Patrick Wright
CO is back, with a dream guest for Dan and Kasia: Professor Patrick Wright, author of On Living in an Old Country and The Village That Died for England, joins…
Cursed ObjectsDavos Hand Warmers and Bug Ice Cream ft. Caitlín Doherty
Only 3000 people are invited to Davos, home of the World Economic Forum - and you’re one of them! Well, not really. But welcome anyway to this chocolate-box…
Cursed ObjectsWhere the Wild Swims Are
New year, new you, new Cursed Objects - let’s dive in! This week, Kasia breaks the ice and takes us on a plunge into the cursed and blessed world of wild…
Cursed ObjectsChristmas - It’s For The Kids, ft. Mr Beatnick
Luke Skywalker, shut up and eat your jelly! As everyone knows, Christmas is like Cursed Objects Christmas, and so sure enough: it’s the long-awaited CO…
Cursed ObjectsLit up like a Christmas tree
What would Christmas be without a tour of London’s lights? For the first of our free xmas podcasts, Kasia and Dan go UP TOWN for an outside (!!) walking tour…
Cursed ObjectsThe Princess Diana Memorial Beanie Baby
Not the Queen of Hearts! Greetings, England's roses, and welcome back to the People's Podcast - this week, it's the original parasocial relationship: ROYALTY…
Cursed ObjectsArt, Swings and Industry - King's Cross Magical History Tour
"Escape to the King's Cross Riviera," said the sign on the construction hoardings - so we did! And it forced us to ask questions like: 'What if you threw a…
Cursed ObjectsBelfast Pubs, Punk and Gentrification ft. Fearghus Roulston
We are back with another brand new episode, another very special guest, the brilliant Fearghus Roulston, and another fascinating assembly of some very Cursed…
Cursed ObjectsSo Scandilous - Fermenting Revolution in the Kitchen
This week, Dan and Kasia forage for meaning in the fertile terrain of culinary "movements", globalisation, multiculturalism and identity, megabucks fine…
Cursed ObjectsBaby on Board! Ft. Charlotte Lydia Riley
“I have been objectified as a vehicle”. We are delighted to welcome back our most-returning guest, as the brilliant historian and author Charlotte Lydia Riley…
Cursed ObjectsThe Rollneck of Contrition
Sit down please. We have something very serious to tell you. We have made a severe and continuous lapse in our judgement. We are sorry if you feel offended…
Cursed ObjectsWar, Memory and Tat, LIVE - with Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley, Luke Turner and Kate Clements
Coming to you LIVE from the Cursed Objects in Museum Shops exhibition, with three very special guests: Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley, Luke Turner and Kate Clements…
Cursed ObjectsMillennium Tat: New Labour and the Neoliberal Gift-Shop
Coming to you LIVE... we are joined by two very special friends of the pod – artist Darren Cullen (aka Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives) and journalist and author…
Cursed ObjectsLive show #2: Exhibitionary complex
Back by popular demand, our second-ever live show!! Dr Kasia Tee and Dan Hancox take you behind the scenes of their recently opened exhibition ‘Cursed Objects…
Cursed ObjectsCursed Objects in Museum Shops - live exhibition extravaganza
To celebrate the launch of our first ever IRL exhibition, Cursed Objects in Museum Shops (2 May-26 June), we have several events coming in May and June. All of…
Cursed ObjectsBig in Japan
The Simpsons are going to (have just been to) Japan! And they’re here to tell you about what they did on their holidays – to discuss sustainable Japanese craft…
Cursed ObjectsYESisode - Yoko Ono fridge magnet
YES you can! SI se puede! Say YES to adventures. Say YES to life. Say YES to your boss (however dumb and awful their suggestion!). This week, Kasia and Dan are…
Cursed ObjectsStraight off the Dome ft. Imogen West-Knights
Roll-up, roll-up for the biggest tent of all! We’re launching into 2025 with a very special guest, Imogen West-Knights, and an absolutely vast cursed object…
Cursed ObjectsCursed Objects on Location! At a Haunted Seaside Hotel
It's a Spooky Christmas special! This week's Cursed Objects is a little bit less Stuart Hall, and a little bit more Derek Acorah, with an episode recorded on…
Cursed ObjectsHappy Trad-mas ft. Mr Beatnick and Archie Bashford
Back by popular demand, it's our annual Christmas party! And this year we’re wrestling with TRADITION. Are you making a list, and checking it twice – just as…
Cursed ObjectsUNLOCKED - Magna Darta dart board
From Patreon to main feed: Welcome all free-born Englishmen, sovereign citizens, rebel barons and new patrons! We're talking about myths of Englishness, why…
Cursed ObjectsSubversive Coffee
This week, it's a deep dive into a steaming mug of cawfee. Hot java. A cup of Joe. Black gold. This is an episode about "the abominable, heathen-ish liquor"…
Cursed ObjectsMultitudes - Live From the Crowd! Ft. Hettie O’Brien
As a Cursed Objects bonus, without an actual cursed object, we present a live recording of Dan in conversation about his brand new book Multitudes: How Crowds…
Cursed ObjectsEvery Breath You Take ft. Dr Alice Bell
Air isn't an object, right? Wrong. This week, climate comms expert and historian Dr Alice Bell makes Dan and Kasia think hard about ephemerality via a jam jar…
Cursed ObjectsKill the Boss in Your Head
Is there actually any moral value to hard work? From the Dignity of Labour to CEO Mindset, Girlbossing and Instagram Hustle propaganda, our entire culture is…
Cursed ObjectsCrap Towns and Caffs (not Cafes) ft. Isaac Rangaswami
The early 2000s were a fever dream: why was pop culture so mean? Specifically, why was it acceptable to write off entire cities - and the people within them -…
Cursed ObjectsAirbnb: Prints of Thieves
They are marketed as democratised holiday rentals, where you get an ‘authentic’ experience by literally living in someone's home - so why are Airbnb’s full of…
Cursed ObjectsRacist Mugs and Legitimate Concerns with Labour
If smart, humane, pro-migration Ed Miliband really hated Labour’s infamous ‘Controls On Immigration’ coffee mug – both of his parents were Jews who escaped the…
Cursed ObjectsThe Museum of Neoliberalism ft. Darren Cullen
How do you start collecting objects for a cursed museum? Kasia and Dan spend all of their money in the gift shop of the Museum of Neoliberalism (well, it…
Cursed ObjectsCursed Objects, Live! #1 Notes from the museum shop
Troubling war merch, Van Gogh bucket hats, Soviet space dogs and the scourge of ‘world’ history - Kasia and Dan stage their first-ever live show to celebrate…
Cursed ObjectsBone music, Soviet outlaws and X-ray rock ‘n’ roll ft. Stephen Coates
A record etched onto an x-ray of a (probably, now) dead Soviet citizen’s head. That is the uniquely cursed object Stephen Coates came across in a Russian flea…
Cursed ObjectsThe Unstoppable Many vs. The Immovable Few (Emergy P for the Snappy G)
Oh god, not another one! When BREAKING NEWS bursts through the wall, we spring, gently and apologetically, into action, with a (cough) emergency p for the…
Cursed ObjectsBlack Frankenstein and White Corporate Diversity ft. Anamik Saha
What if there was an object so cursed that it was never even made? This week we are joined by culture studies don Prof Anamik Saha to discuss anti-racism…
Cursed ObjectsHipster Analysis
Were you into Cursed Objects before it was cool? Like Grandpa Simpson remembering the war, this week Dan and Kasia are holding a seance for those perennial…
Cursed ObjectsWalk the (thin blue) line ft. Melayna Lamb
The police just follow the law, right!? Our guest Melayna Lamb thinks we need to flip this thinking around - and see the police as a law unto themselves. Using…
Cursed ObjectsA Sack of Wet Eggs
How do you like your eggs in the morning? Hopefully not wet?? It’s Easter, so in the spirit of bringing you some seasonal #content, Kasia and Dan explore what…
Cursed ObjectsAgainst Landlords ft. Nick Bano
Forget everything you thought you knew about the housing crisis! This week we have a very special guest, housing lawyer Nick Bano, with a hugely enlightening…
Cursed ObjectsHey QT!
Kasia and Dan are earning their lunch. And it’s a big, steaming bowl of cuteness! They go to the Somerset House ‘Cute’ exhibition to unravel how this seemingly…
Cursed ObjectsMajor Jugs and Starmer Flip-Flops
This week, Dan and Kasia are getting into a submersible and heading into the dark blue depths, poking around the extremely cursed domain of Britain's unnatural…
Cursed ObjectsYou're Beautiful (no matter what they say)
We're baaaack! And we're feeling FIT, while also reassuring you that it's what's inside that counts. Kasia and Dan return with a new series, where today we're…
Cursed ObjectsHaunted Dickensian Christmas ft. Mr. Beatnick and Archie Bashford
It's a classic Haunted Dickensian Cursed Objects Office Christmas Party! If you think Halloween is the spookiest time of year - you’re dead wrong. We’re…
Cursed ObjectsAbolish Restaurants!
Service! This week, we are hovering around ‘the pass’, checking our plating is okay, and asking how a simple labour-saving device, a coffee shop palette knife…
Cursed ObjectsBed, bugs, and hedgehogs
Mice, lice, moths…and prehistoric-looking ‘weta’ grasshoppers. We are in the grips of a pest control moral panic. Could the humble hedgehog be the solution to…
Cursed ObjectsDetectorists vs Time Team
Recorded on a hungover rainy Sunday, it's a history-on-TV episode, and it's an episode about HISTORY IN THE FIELD. Literally in the field, or rather in a…
Cursed ObjectsBeans Clock - 50th Episode Extravaganza
It's our 50th episode! Sort of. There's an asterisk. But it's sort of our 50th episode! To mark the occasion, Dan and Kasia are tackling their own logo, the…
Cursed ObjectsPyramid Schemes and Revolutions ft. Jack Shenker
What happens when a revolution dies? Jack Shenker witnessed firsthand the phenomenal Egyptian strike waves of the late 2000s that led to the toppling of the…
Cursed ObjectsRainy Empire Island ft. Charlotte Lydia Riley
Welcome to a new series of Cursed Objects! For the first episode back, very special guest historian Charlotte Lydia Riley brings in a souvenir mug…
Cursed ObjectsCursed Summer Sessions: The Revolutionary Potential of Antiques Roadshow
For the next Patreon-only Cursed Summer Session, Dan and Kasia get stuck into a decades-old British institution, with a TV review of Antiques Roadshow -…
Cursed ObjectsStill Trippin’ on These Shrooms
Sit up straight, hippies! Kasia and Dan have some questions for you, and it's high time you answered. Where did all this magic mushroom merch come from? What…
Cursed ObjectsJamie’s Cursed Cookin’ - ft. Jonathan Nunn and Biz
Pukka! We’re dancing in the moonlight with the king of the English culinary world, Jamie Oliver. How did someone so cringe achieve such dizzying levels of fame…
Cursed ObjectsThe Work Of Toblerone In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction
Come fly away with us and Alain de Botton (sorry but he's coming too), and take a trip on Venga Airways - but we're not leaving the ground: you're trapped with…
Cursed ObjectsMilking It
It's a source of strength, life, sickness, disgust, delight and deep nausea. It's fraught with climate controversy and tensions over rights, care, state power…
Cursed ObjectsDeath to False Metal! H&M Guns ’n’ Roses baby grow
Oh so you're 6 months old and you say you're a true Guns 'n' Roses fan? Name their top 3 albums then! Coming to you live from the furious and cathartic heart…
Cursed ObjectsElf Bars For Days
Smoking is almost too on-the-nose a subject for Cursed Objects. But vapes - candy-coloured, daftly-named, targeted at children, making wads of $$$ for the same…
Cursed ObjectsWhere were you when.. (ROYAL EDITION)
The desire to feel like you are 'part of history' can turn even the most ardent republican into a flag-waving monarchist shill. So why are we all so desperate…